12/16/2021
Malcolm Moller, Managing Partner of Appleby’s Mauritius office said “We are delighted to have been nominated for this award which is a direct reflection of our team’s commitment and dedication to helping clients meet their business objec
12/08/2021
In simple terms a “loop” structure was generally created when South African resident individuals, companies, trusts and private equity funds transferred funds or assets from South Africa into a foreign structure
11/18/2021
A former chairman of the Pensions Reform Task Team (PRTT) in Nigeria, has been convicted and sentenced to eight years imprisonment for money laundering and other charges, reports Alfred Olufemi.
11/10/2021
Okon Abang, a judge at a federal high court in Abuja, sentenced Maina to eight years in prison on Nov. 8 after finding him and his company guilty of all twelve counts (essentially of money laundering) filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
11/08/2021
Justices Roselyn Nambuye, Patrick Kiage and Jamila Mohammed, however dismissed the plea, saying there was nothing in the second appeal by Absa, which is of great public interest or requires constitutional interpretation for Supreme Court address.
11/04/2021
At the hearing of the case on Wednesday (November 3), Justice Toyin Oyekan-Abdullahi, noted that some banks are yet to comply with the court’s October 20, 2021 order granted in favour of the investors.
10/29/2021
Baker McKenzie supported Standard Chartered Bank’s in-house legal team on this complex cross-border transaction sequence, led by Helen Pinder, Head of Legal, Capital Markets ( Europe, Africa, Americas & MENAP).
10/11/2021
Greylisting by the FATF would raise SA’s risk profile, place a question mark over its financial regulatory bodies and attach a higher risk premium to corresponding relationships between SA banks and international financial institutions.